steve, good to see you, thanks for being here. >> good to be here, david. david: the republican message, what's he got to make clear about the limit of the role of the government in our lives? >> well, i think if you talk to most business people, they say there's three legitimate roles for government in business. the first is regulation. from a regulatory stand point, the role of the government is to level the playing field, establish the boundaries, make sure that consumers are not getting hurt, but then get out of the way and let businesses compete, not continue to change the rules of the game once you're into the game, not continue to issue regulation after regulation. that is the regulation. second is taxation. america's taxed as the highest rate in the world. there's loopholes, and peek talk about it. the extraordinary rates drive investments overseas and diminish job creation here in the u.s.. we have over $2 trillion in cash sitting on balance sheets of u.s. corporations. taxation is an important area the government needs to lower and level the playi